You did it! We’re Detoxing the Great Outdoors!

When we launched the Detox Outdoor campaign in late 2015 our goal was simple: Together with you, the outdoor community and Greenpeace supporters, we wanted to eliminate hazardous PFCs (chemicals used in weatherproofing outdoor gear).

Gore Fabrics, the maker of GORE-TEX® products and a major supplier of membranes and coatings to outdoor brands like The North Face and Mammut, has committed to eliminate hazardous PFCs from their product lines!

Gore Fabrics will eliminate hazardous PFCs from its general outdoor weatherproofing laminates by end of 2020 and from its specialised weatherproofing laminates by end of 2023.

This campaign victory belongs to YOU.

Volunteers and outdoor enthusiasts in Stockholm take it all off to protect the outdoors.

Hundreds of thousands of you took action online, questioned which of the major brands are using PFCs and voted for which of your favorite products should be tested.

Hikers, runners, campers, climbers, and skiers co-created activities for the Detox Outdoor week of action! The brands were really feeling the pressure, and some early industry leaders emerged as Paramo, Rotauf and Vaude signed Detox commitments to go PFC free!

The PD Lisca Mountaineering Society in Slovenia joined Greenpeace volunteers to call for a PFC-free outdoors.

You then organised over 150 amazing activities around the world to demand that The North Face, Mammut, Hagläff, Black Yak, and other major brands eliminate hazardous PFCs too.

And many of these brands pressured Gore Fabrics, their main supplier for membranes, to remove hazardous PFCs from their products.

You are AMAZING! When we come together as outdoor lovers, Greenpeace supporters, donors, and volunteers, we can accomplish anything.

Thank you for all your efforts and support, this campaign victory belongs to you!

Edyta Sitko is the engagement lead for the Detox Outdoor Project with Greenpeace East Asia.

Stefan Durrenberger is the online mobilisation lead for the Detox Outdoor Project with Greenpeace Switzerland.

I noticed a JAPANESE DIOXIN + PCB; EARTH CLEANING RENEWAL MACHINE by Takenaka Corp/Takenaka Civil Engineering plus a few other manufacturers. It deco...

I noticed a JAPANESE DIOXIN + PCB; EARTH CLEANING RENEWAL MACHINE by Takenaka Corp/Takenaka Civil Engineering plus a few other manufacturers. It decontaminates and detoxifys soil of high concentrations of dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls PCBs by low pressure/vacuum, low oxygen, a small bit of heat possibly low ultra violet light.

The machine is 10 years old now, the first one processes 70 tonnes of earth per day. It will be so usefull for contaminated sites and could be remote controlled or probably all ready is.

I am worried by Superfund Sites and undisclosed waste zones and leachate from managed landfill sites.

I saw another machine that I think was spun out of the US military and now a company called electronic Nano Solutions. I dont like nano material in my body or habitats but this machine helps the situation. It collects PM10, PM2.5,
and less than PM0.1 and Nano smog particles
, heavy metals, and toxic waste gasses such
as sulfur oxides (SOx, nitrogen oxides (NOs, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and ozone.
Without using a HEPA filter this machine uses just 70 watts to clean 14000 meter cbd. per hour and capture all particles on a metal plate…...with an ajustable rate fan or can theoretically be put in forward motion ie integrated into the front of vehicles eg city taxis and city buses. Its already used in buildings and factories. Bye Bye SMOG

But quality factory pollution scrubbers are US$90,000 from Peoples Republic of China and effluent cleaners €1500 from Denmark and Tanneriery Fluid cleaning machines are also available from Peoples republic of China.

JAPAN is safe like to put a double irons girdered piles wall far out in Tepco Fukushima Daiichi Harbour filled with iron filings. Industrial Radiation is a huge problem.

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Hydraulic Fracturing is a possible fatal hazard and risk to over 10,000 future generations. No way is it well thought out and there are better altern...

Hydraulic Fracturing is a possible fatal hazard and risk to over 10,000 future generations. No way is it well thought out and there are better alternatives like Solar Heaters, Richards Dysons Heater, smaller engines and more space inside (WHY have a dilimited 170 mph capability?) Tesla Watt Multiplier, Solar Farms in remote areas with dc power lines 7rl, Existing Oil and Gas fields that are not under farmland nor national parks nor near drinking nor in irrigation water. Hydraluic Fracturing is not a good idea. Its been known to occur in Botswana, South Africa, USA even South America. Profit motive wrong again. 10,000 generations food and water in peril.

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